I treat them how I treat rice sticks or ramen - not how I treat other pastas. They work very well in Asian style dishes and noodle bowls.

For a pasta sub, I like to use zucchini noodles (zucchini peeled into noodles). They are more noodle-y to me and I'm getting in some vitamin C, vitamin A, and one zucchini is only around 30-35 calories